A Georgia man is being called a hero after he died protecting his 4-year-old daughter from a car that was about to hit her, police said.Dedrick Bacon was walking with his three youngest children in Waycross, Georgia, on Aug. 10 when his daughter ran onto the road, reports WJAX.Perhaps it was fatherly instinct that kicked in. He ran in front of a car going about 40 mph.“On impact, he picked her up and threw her, and he took the hit for her,” said Idella Bacon, Dedrick’s sister, calling him a hero to all who knew him.He died from his injuries two days later.“That was him, that was the kind of person he was,” said Gary Franklin, Dedrick Bacon’s friend. “It made me smile because I know that’s something he would do. So I wasn’t surprised about it.”The family has established a GoFundMe page to raise funeral funds.

WAYCROSS, Ga. —

A Georgia man is being called a hero after he died protecting his 4-year-old daughter from a car that was about to hit her, police said.

Dedrick Bacon was walking with his three youngest children in Waycross, Georgia, on Aug. 10 when his daughter ran onto the road, reports WJAX.

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Perhaps it was fatherly instinct that kicked in. He ran in front of a car going about 40 mph.

“On impact, he picked her up and threw her, and he took the hit for her,” said Idella Bacon, Dedrick’s sister, calling him a hero to all who knew him.

He died from his injuries two days later.

“That was him, that was the kind of person he was,” said Gary Franklin, Dedrick Bacon’s friend. “It made me smile because I know that’s something he would do. So I wasn’t surprised about it.”